Galina Savelyeva

Galina Mikhailovna Savelyeva (; 23 February 1928 – 29 November 2022) was a Russian gynaecologist and educator. She was vice-president of the Russian Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She was honoured with awards including Order of the Badge of Honour, Honoured Science Worker of the Russian Federation (2003) and Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2018).

Biography Savelyeva was born on 23 February 1928 in Kuvaka, Penza Province, USSR. Her father was a petroleum engineer and her mother was a teacher. From 1971 to 2017 Savelyeva was head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Russian National Research Medical University. In 2000, she founded the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Moscow State University. and was a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Savelyeva died on 29 November 2022 in Moscow, Russia, aged 94. Moscow Mayor's Prize (2001) Lifetime achievement award from the World Association of Perinatal Medicine (2014)